"GESTURE"

[A beautiful lyric poem from L.E. Leone—enjoy!]

GESTURE


You can love the world
so, so much yet know that
no matter how ultimately it embraces
you, it won’t, can’t return

your box of chocolates

So you hope to find
instead a person
maybe loves the world
as much as you do

or more even, and
you can play together
in a darkened room
while outside, without knocking

the earth sends flowers

L.E. Leone
© 2010